Time Flies

[Pentagram 2008 Typography Calendar at Ken Knight]

Ken Knight, whom I credit with making Dallas a more stylish place in the 80s and 90s, sent me this cool calendar because he knows that I would not remember to buy a 2008 calendar until 2008, and he was right. A lot of people are like me, he says, so that’s why he’s been pasting labels on mailing tubes for weeks solid now, trying to keep up with all the urgent orders. Ken’s in San Francisco now, selling design books and office products of good design via his website. And now, the strangest thing. I rode down in the elevator this morning in my apartment building with my neighbor in 12C, Irving Goldberg. I was silently admiring Irv’s taupe and cream houndstooth cashmere muffler and thinking about how I hadn’t blogged yet about the calendar from Ken (the graphics reminded me of each other, I guess?). Irv piped up around the 8th floor and asked if anyone knew where Ken Knight was these days and whether he was still writing. Eerie. Have I watched The Secret too many times or what?